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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 1701553" data-attributes="member: 8447">Actually, I think in many ways it would take a better GM to run a high magic (read: standard D&D magic) campaign.Why so?Because such a GM would actually take into account all of the magic, not just as it applies to a small battlefield or short set of encounters, but how it would affect the world overall.  The implications of this level of magic in the world is staggering.  As a base-level example, let me take the sample hamlet of 200 people from the 3.0 DMG.Okay, 200 peoplewe have one 1st level Adept, one 1st level Wizard, one 3rd level Cleric, two 1st level Clerics, one 1st level Druid, and one 1st level Bard.  Total magic-using sorts in the town:  7.  That is 3.5% of the population.  Now this does not bring a lot of magic to the town, especially of a high level, but it does bring enough to a small group of people (remember, 200) that it would utterly alter their lives.  That Druid is going to be very popular with the farmers.  The problem is that if the 3.5% snapshot continued to a city of, say, 2000 people, we would now have 70 magic users, several of them of notably higher level.  In a city of 20,000 we have 700 magic users, including several in the mid-range (12-15th level).  One 1st level cleric of average ability has 5 spells useable each day.  A druid has four; a sorcerer has 8; a wizard has four.  Those are spells who they can use every single day.  And remember that in the case of a wizard/sorcerer, many of those spells are highly destructive.  The problem with many campaigns that I have been in, seen, and even run, is that the serious magic (other than healing or a bit of scrying) never really makes an impact on the campaign, much less the world, until the PCs are in a position to take these powers on.  This is one of the reasons I prefer low magic in my world -- it messes up the gameworld less.  (This is also the reason that I cut down on the number of sentient species, vast numbers of magical animals, magical items, etc.)</blockquote>

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